Examining your Earthquake Hazard

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Summary

Students look at their seismic hazard and then determine the likelihood that their residence will be uninhabitable after 500-year return interval quake.

Learning Goals

Learn what seismic hazard is

Learn to relate shaking to intensity

Learn about the relationship between intensity and damage to structures.

Context for Use

This is used in a introductory natural hazards course. It could be done as a homework or lab.

Description and Teaching Materials

In this activity, students assess the ground shaking hazard
and potential damage to their home from an earthquake of a certain
magnitude using USGS data. The student handout(Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 787kB Feb26 13) provides guiding instructions and questions designed to help students write a culminating Earthquake
Hazard and Risk Report.

Teaching Notes and Tips

Assessment

Students are assessed on their answers to questions on the student handout and via a Earthquake Hazard and Risk Report (described in the student handout).

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Provenance

Created by the author of the page containing
this file. This activity authored by Eric Baer and Carla Whittington, Highline College.

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